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Ahead of the predicted heatwave next week, some schools are cancelling PE lessons to protect their precious diddums, while others are telling pupils to stay at home and indoors as the temperature soars.
The sinner takes it all After leaving his second wife of 41 years, Abba’s Bjorn Ulvaeus, 77, appears with his new girlfriend Christina Sas, almost three decades younger than him, saying they’d been dating ‘for a while’ and she had nothing to do with his marriage ending.
And even more surprised that the amiable young woman I hired in Conservative Central Office as a junior press officer more than 20 years ago, when I was William Hague’s press secretary, should now be the second favourite to get the top job.
Yet that underestimates the real story of the Czech refugee who landed in America as a model, became a successful businesswoman in her own right, helped design Trump Tower (for which we can just about forgive her), married four times and supported her ex Donald in his bid for presidency.
In the next, she’s saying she’s happy being single, that ‘life is pretty bloody perfect right now’, yet she wouldn’t turn down the overtures of someone who was ‘lovely and kind’. Which is sad really, as those who know him say Phil is both of those things — and apparently still single.
She lived in Reading and walked to get the 4am bus, then a 5am train, to be in the London office by six for her early shift. Even then, she was fiercely ambitious. Today, her PM4PM slogan is witty, but to think she could become our Prime Minister fills me with horror.
The contest has become like that game women play after a few too many glasses of wine selecting someone they’d sleep with: ‘Which one if you had to?’ Who could go for a back-stabber like Sunak, or an ingenue like Mordaunt?
Choosing our next leader is an existential challenge.
Frontrunner Rishi Sunak is a member of the liberal global elite, eye-wateringly rich with a wife who claimed non-dom tax status. And a back-stabber whose resignation triggered Boris’s downfall.
Then we have Mordaunt, a trade minister who was briefly a secretary of state, untried in the heat of battle, reading help for kids and so woke she’s still obfuscating about what it is to be a woman. In third place is Liz Truss, a woman who has served in Cabinet as Foreign Secretary and has, as even her detractors admit, rather distinguished herself.
Weeks ago when it was becoming clear that Boris Johnson, the most successful PM we Tories have had for decades, was about to be dethroned, I called former Cabinet ministers who had worked with Penny Mordaunt.
San Francisco mental health company BetterUp must be wondering why they employed Prince Harry as ‘Chief Impact Officer’, when he told us to ‘flex’ rather than ‘fix’ our minds to unlock the greatness within. Who wants lectures on greatness from such a whinger?
Divine irony for Hugh How disappointing that Hugh Grant says he won’t take the role of Prince Andrew in the forthcoming movie about that BBC Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis — which led to the Queen’s son’s removal from public life over allegations he bedded one of Jeffrey Epstein’s girls.
Clearly distressed, he spent the next two hours licking it all off, then threw up on the sofa. My vet told me to put sunscreen on my ginger cat Ted, mostly white with splodges, to avoid skin cancer.
I put Factor 50 on his nose, ears and tummy as recommended.
My recipe for a stress-free meal is Costco’s beef casserole, macaroni cheese and salad — plus large dollops of vino. Well done Nigella Lawson, who called out mean TV chefs for turning cooking into a ‘theatre of cruelty’ and making people worry about food at home.
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